Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Saturday, May 15, 2010

FINAL - Magazine Cover

I have decided to do a cover of my favorite magazine, MIND.

I bought a picture from fotolia.com (from Jens Schmidt)

MY FINAL COVER:

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Week #14: Lesson 8 & Last of Groovy Photoshop Techniques

Pop Dots:

Using Text As a Clipping Mask:

Tutorials from the Book (One-on-One)
Sharpening an Image - using Blur to sharpen


Applying Free - Form Distortions


Gaussian Blur and Median - softening

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Week #12 & 13: INTRODUCTION TO MASKS continued - part 2

CHINASKI in the United States - April 2010
The popular Czech Band CHINASKI came to visit California

Miro & Me in the Concert of Chinaski in Mountain View, CA

Me & Erika

Week 12: LESSON 9 in the Book (One-on-one)

All Images are from the book - Photoshop CS4 - One-on-One / Excercises:

Arranging and Modifying Layers


Importing, transforming, and Warping Layers


Masks, Knockouts, and Luminance Blending


Working with Layer Comps

Aligning Layers and Blending Photographs
Final Composite - 2 images in 1


Creating Panoramas with PHOTOMERGE
Pictures used for final Panorama View: Final Image:
Content-Aware Scaling
Before:

After:

Week #12: Depth of Field



The Final Composite of depth of Field:
Image: Prag, the Czech Republic.